Answer by Patanjali for What does in XML mean?
Note that the CDATA construct is only needed if placing text directly in the XML text file.That is, you only need to use CDATA if hand typing or programmatically building the XML text directly.Any text...
View ArticleAnswer by HoangYell for What does in XML mean?
It escapes a string that cannot be passed to XML as usual:Example:The string contains "&" in it.You can not:<FL val="Company Name">Dolce & Gabbana</FL>Therefore, you must use...
View ArticleAnswer by Octane for What does in XML mean?
I once had to use CDATA when my xml element needed to store HTML code. Something like<codearea><![CDATA[ <div> <p> my para </p> </div> ]]></codearea>So CDATA...
View ArticleAnswer by Chdid for What does in XML mean?
From Wikipedia:[In] an XML document or external parsed entity, a CDATA section is a section of element content that is marked for the parser to interpret as only character data, not...
View ArticleAnswer by LadyCygnus for What does in XML mean?
As another example of its use:If you have an RSS Feed (xml document) and want to include some basic HTML encoding in the display of the description, you can use CData to encode...
View ArticleAnswer by not-just-yeti for What does in XML mean?
One big use-case: your xml includes a program, as data (e.g. a web-page tutorial for Java). In that situation your data includes a big chunk of characters that include '&' and '<' but those...
View ArticleAnswer by randomness for What does in XML mean?
The Cdata is a data which you may want to pass to an xml parser and still not interpreted as an xml. Say for eg :- You have an xml which has encapsulates question/answer object . Such open fields can...
View ArticleAnswer by paary for What does in XML mean?
CDATA stands for Character Data. You can use this to escape some characters which otherwise will be treated as regular XML. The data inside this will not be parsed.For example, if you want to pass a...
View ArticleAnswer by Richard JP Le Guen for What does in XML mean?
A CDATA section is "a section of element content that is marked for the parser to interpret as only character data, not markup."Syntactically, it behaves similarly to a...
View ArticleAnswer by Johan for What does in XML mean?
Usually used for embedding custom data, like pictures or sound data within an XML document.
View ArticleAnswer by Ikke for What does in XML mean?
It's used to contain data which could otherwise be seen as xml because it contains certain characters. This way the data inside will be displayed, but not interpreted.
View ArticleAnswer by Sean Vieira for What does in XML mean?
CDATA stands for Character Data and it means that the data in between these strings includes data that could be interpreted as XML markup, but should not be.The key differences between CDATA and...
View ArticleAnswer by fbrereto for What does in XML mean?
The data contained therein will not be parsed as XML, and as such does not need to be valid XML or can contain elements that may appear to be XML but are not.
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I often find this strange CDATA tag in XML files:<![CDATA[some stuff]]>I have observed that this CDATA tag always comes at the beginning, and then followed by some stuff.But sometimes it is used,...
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